Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Xuelong Ridge.

Zhou Chun, having just completed his Nascent Soul stage, immediately set his sights on a fifth-tier demon king, displaying boundless ambition.

He was dressed in a moon-white fairy robe, surrounded by a mist of white light that easily blocked the wind blades, wind spears, and other magical spells and supernatural powers used by the fifth-order demon king. He seemed to have an aura of invulnerability to all magic once he put on the robe.

At the same time, he opened his mouth and spat out nine invisible ice needles, which flew out from all angles toward the fifth-order demon king.

The flying needles were invisible and difficult to detect with divine sense. They were only discovered by the fifth-order demon king when they flew close to within a thousand feet of him.

But at this distance, there was no room for it to dodge, so it could only use the power of its demon core to create a layer of azure protective wind around its body.

But how could this mere protective aura withstand the attack of a top-grade magic weapon!

Nine invisible ice needles pierced through the protective aura one after another, striking various parts of the bluish-white giant bird's body.

Unfortunately, fifth-tier demon kings are generally thick-skinned and tough. Even birds, whose defenses are slightly weaker, have bodies comparable to high-grade magic weapons.

Although the nine invisible ice needles pierced its feathers and flesh, they could not cause any serious damage. The released cold poison was also somewhat insignificant to this fifth-tier demon king who possessed both wind and ice attributes, and could not have much of an impact.

To put it bluntly, the [Nine Annihilation Ice Needles] magic weapon is only suitable for dealing with human cultivators who are not good at physical defense. Its threat to demon kings is greatly reduced unless it can hit certain vital parts.

Even so, the fact that Zhou Chun broke through his defenses right after the first exchange made the fifth-tier demon king feel very embarrassed, so he quickly launched a counterattack.

It opened its mouth and spat out a wisp of azure demonic wind, which quickly drew in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, transforming into a giant whirlwind with a diameter of tens of feet that swept towards Zhou Chun.

Zhou Chun scanned the whirlwind with his divine sense and immediately sensed the hidden danger within it. He then dodged and tried to avoid it.

However, the whirlwind spun faster and faster in the air, and soon transformed into a whirlwind tornado. Moreover, this whirlwind tornado could change its position and move at will, controlled by the fifth-order demon king.

Even more impressively, as the whirlwind absorbed more and more spiritual energy from heaven and earth, it began to emit a terrifying suction force, drawing in all the surrounding clouds and snowflakes.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun dared not be drawn into it rashly and could only retreat again and again to temporarily avoid its sharp edge.

Human strength has its limits. Even a fifth-tier demon king cannot maintain such supernatural power indefinitely. When the power of the whirlwind tornado becomes stronger and stronger and exceeds its control, it will naturally dissipate.

That fifth-tier demon king was clearly aware of this.

Therefore, it couldn't help but sneer, "Weren't you so arrogant before, wanting to use me as a sacrifice for your sword? Why don't you even have the courage to confront me head-on now?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun, instead of being angry, laughed and said, "A feathered beast is still a beast, even if it transforms into human form, it still thinks like a beast! I, Zhou, could easily dodge your attack, so why did I choose to take it head-on?"

These words immediately enraged the fifth-tier demon king, making his feathers stand on end.

"Die!"

With a roar, before the whirlwind could grow out of control, it forcefully stretched it into a wind dragon hundreds of feet long with its great magic power, and pounced towards Zhou Chun.

This took a tremendous toll on its magical power, causing it to stop moving and requiring it to concentrate its mind and strength to control the raging wind dragon.

However, Zhou Chun was also forced into a corner by the raging wind dragon.

After the hurricane tornado transformed into a wind dragon, although it lost its growth potential, its agility increased significantly, and its speed was no less than that of Zhou Chun when he used the "Golden Escape Technique".

After he once again used the "Golden Escape Technique" to temporarily shake off the wind dragon's pursuit, he immediately opened his mouth and spat out the [Moon Toad Treasure Pearl], the true form of the spiritual treasure. Then, using the "Spiritual Treasure Communication Technique," he activated the spirit within the treasure, directly transforming it into a giant white toad that floated in the air.

The price of activating this magical treasure with all his might was that nearly 20% of Zhou Chun's magical power was drained away!

quack!

A frog croaked, and as the raging wind dragon attacked again, the giant white toad in the air opened its mouth and spat out a beam of white ice light that blasted towards it.

Suddenly, a beautiful scene unfolded.

The dark blue wind dragon, which was tens of feet in diameter and hundreds of feet long, was quickly frozen from head to tail into a white ice dragon after being struck by a pillar of ice light less than a foot thick!

This beautiful scene lasted only a few breaths before the white ice dragon shattered into countless scattered ice flowers, leaving behind a desolate scene.

On the other side, the fifth-tier demon king whose supernatural power was broken let out a miserable scream, blood spilling from the corner of his mouth, suffering considerable backlash damage.

It deserved it; if it hadn't forcibly transformed the whirlwind into a wind dragon with great power, even if its supernatural abilities were broken, it wouldn't have suffered any repercussions or backlash.

However, after it forcibly enlightened the wind dragon with its great magic power, it bound its own magic power and divine consciousness to the wind dragon, making it its own clone.

In this way, once the wind dragon is broken, it will not have time to disconnect and will naturally suffer considerable backlash damage.

"A spiritual treasure! You actually possess a spiritual treasure!!"

A shocked voice escaped from the fifth-tier demon king's mouth. Its eagle eyes were fixed on the white giant toad in the air, whose aura was somewhat weak. Its eyes were full of shock, and a hint of greed was mixed with the shock.

After surviving the Heavenly Tribulation, fifth-tier demon kings no longer face any restrictions when wielding human cultivators' magical treasures. Whether it's a top-grade magical treasure or a spiritual treasure, once it falls into their hands, it can unleash its full power, greatly enhancing their strength.

Therefore, their desire for these top-grade magic weapons and spiritual treasures is even greater than that of ordinary human Nascent Soul stage cultivators.

Even a Nascent Soul stage human cultivator like Master Kuang Lei has difficulty obtaining a spiritual treasure, let alone a fifth-order demon king.

Among the demon kings, possessing a top-grade magic weapon that suits one's own status is already a great honor. Spiritual treasures are something that only fifth-tier high-grade demon kings can possess!

The fifth-tier demon king who was fighting Zhou Chun didn't even have a top-grade magic weapon that suited him. When he suddenly saw that Zhou Chun actually possessed a spiritual treasure, how could he not be shocked and feel greedy?

After all, it knew that Zhou Chun had just successfully formed his Nascent Soul and had not yet had time to cultivate any powerful supernatural abilities or refine and upgrade his natal magic treasure. It could be said that apart from possessing the magical power and divine sense of the Nascent Soul stage, his supernatural abilities were not much different from those of the Golden Core stage.

In this way, even if the magical treasure is incredibly powerful, if it goes all out and is willing to pay a certain price, it might still have a chance to snatch the magical treasure from Zhou Chun.

Once it has a spiritual treasure in hand, it dares to contend with even those mid-grade fifth-order demon kings or mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators!

The moment this thought appeared, it quickly took over the mind of this fifth-tier demon king, making it instantly forget its previous worries about not wanting to fight Zhou Chun.

With a fierce screech, it flapped its wings and pounced towards Zhou Chun, truly using its full strength.

In an instant, bird shadows flickered in the sky, and everywhere were the afterimages left by the demon king's true form as it sped past.

As it rapidly swept across the sky, its wings tore through the air like sharp blades, creating incomparably sharp blades of air in mid-air.

Within a few short breaths, Zhou Chun was attacked dozens of times, causing the protective immortal robe on his body to flicker and dim visibly.

Faced with this situation, Zhou Chun showed no sign of panic.

He raised his hand and beckoned, and the giant white toad pounced towards him.

The fifth-tier demon king was clearly extremely wary of this spiritual treasure and dared not easily make contact with it. He simply unleashed a series of wind blades to slash at the white giant toad, attempting to prevent it from joining Zhou Chun.

However, the power of the magical treasure should not be underestimated. Its methods were directly frozen and annihilated by the white ice light emanating from the giant white toad as soon as it approached.

When the white giant toad merged with Zhou Chun, Zhou Chun immediately became one with it in front of the fifth-order demon king's shocked gaze, transforming into a Taiyin Moon Toad!

In his Moon Toad form, Zhou Chun's defenses were even stronger, and he could even unleash extreme cold light to freeze the surrounding space, causing the fifth-tier demon king's speed to drop drastically.

This made the fifth-tier demon king feel troubled, and his desire to seize the spiritual treasure even stronger.

In its view, the fact that Zhou Chun, who had just successfully formed his Nascent Soul, had forced it to such a state further demonstrated the power and rarity of the spiritual treasure.

Since Zhou Chun had a spiritual treasure in his hand and couldn't pose any threat to its life, how could it not fight with all its might!

Everyone knows that spiritual treasures consume a great deal of a cultivator's mana, and even a Nascent Soul cultivator in the early stages would find it difficult to continuously activate such a treasure for a long time.

If it can delay any longer, it may still have a chance to seize the treasure.

This is a classic gambler's mentality!

When a gambler feels he has a chance to win, he will only think about things that are in his favor, selectively ignoring and forgetting other things that might be detrimental to him.

As is well known, gambling is an inherent trait possessed by almost all intelligent beings.

Some people never gamble in their entire lives, but they often gamble everything at some point. If they succeed, they achieve great success and fame, even becoming immortalized in history; if they fail, they lose everything and become a laughingstock for eternity!

This fifth-tier demon king may have realized it, but he didn't pay attention.

While it was fighting Zhou Chun, four demonic beasts with the cultivation level of the fourth rank and above had already approached the battlefield from all directions.

While it was figuring out how to force Zhou Chun to use those extremely energy-consuming moves while ensuring its own safety, the four fourth-tier high-grade demonic beasts had already connected and merged their auras and entered the battlefield.

By the time it senses something is wrong and its mind warns, it's too late to change anything.

The phantoms of four giant beasts—a silver thunder dragon, a seven-colored fire phoenix, an emerald green unicorn, and an earthen yellow black tortoise—condensed in the air, their magical power and spiritual light merging and merging to quickly form a Four Symbols Array Domain that enveloped Zhou Chun, who had transformed into a moon toad, and the fifth-tier demon king.

As the master of the four beasts, Zhou Chun naturally and easily left the Four Symbols Array Domain and went to the outside world.

The fifth-tier demon king inside became the first test subject of this "Heavenly Absolute Four Symbols Formation".

At that moment, the four beasts used a secret technique to rotate and first bestow their blessing power upon the silver thunder dragon. This caused the silver thunder dragon, which had been blessed by the power of the other three beasts, to instantly materialize from the void. With a dragon roar, it transformed into a hundred-foot-long thunder dragon and pounced on the fifth-order demon king.

The power of this attack was no less than that of a Nascent Soul cultivator, which made Zhou Chun's eyes light up with admiration.

The fifth-tier demon king was also extremely shocked. It hurriedly let out a fierce roar and folded its wings together, like a shield protecting its head and body. Dense azure spiritual light burst forth from the feathers on its body, transforming into an azure gale shield in front of it.

This is its most powerful defensive measure, which it only uses when it is truly in danger.

Once it employs this tactic, it may even be forced to abandon its prized speed and remain stationary.

Rumble!

With a deafening roar, silver lightning instantly engulfed the azure light.

It wasn't until quite a while later that a giant bird emitting black smoke burst out from the ocean of lightning, attempting to break free of the Four Symbols Array.

But the four beasts were of one mind at this moment, and the other three beasts immediately transferred their power to the phantom of the Xuan Turtle.

Instantly, a yellowish-brown spiritual light emanated from the Xuan Turtle, covering the entire array area.

The fifth-tier demon king was swept away by this earthy yellow spiritual light and immediately felt as if he were stuck in a quagmire, his speed greatly reduced!

Then the phantom of the Xuan Turtle opened its mouth again and spat out a beam of petrifying light that shot towards the cave of the fifth-order demon king.

At that moment, the fifth-tier demon king frantically warned itself, making it clear that it absolutely could not take this petrifying light head-on.

Therefore, it had no choice but to unleash its trump card for survival, splitting its body in two instantly, creating two versions of itself within the array.

The petrifying light ultimately struck a magical avatar, turning it into a stone sculpture.

Although he avoided the fatal blow, the fifth-tier demon king's own magical power was greatly depleted, and he could no longer use his life-saving divine power for the time being.

Fortunately, the petrifying light seemed to have greatly depleted the Xuan Turtle phantom, and no more attacks came down for the time being. It was still able to continue to break out of the gravity field generated by the earth-yellow spiritual light.

Just when it thought it could break through this strange array, the blessing power within the array changed again, and was now being applied to the emerald green Qilin phantom.

Then, emerald green vines grew from the void, instantly forming a cage that imprisoned the fifth-tier demon king inside.

good chance!

Seeing this, Zhou Chun, who was watching the commotion from outside, immediately brightened up. Without hesitation, he opened his mouth and spat out a "Taiyin Extinction Divine Light" that struck the cage.

Just as that fifth-tier demon king flapped his wings and broke free from the vine cage, he was met head-on by that white icy light!

In an instant, its body was frozen in solid ice, completely powerless to resist.

However, it was, after all, a fifth-tier demon king, and even with the power of a spiritual treasure, it would be difficult to kill it in one blow.

Soon, a layer of cyan demonic fire ignited on its body, forcibly incinerating the solid ice that had sealed it.

This is its natal fire, which it burns at the cost of its demon core essence. Just like the infant fire of a Nascent Soul cultivator, it has an extremely high temperature and immense power.

However, stimulating the essence of the demon core in this way will cause great damage to the demon core. Even if it can successfully escape today, it will take at least several decades or even hundreds of years to recover its vitality!

However, in a life-or-death situation, this approach is undoubtedly the most correct.

Having escaped by burning the power of his demon core, this fifth-order demon king, who had already suffered a great loss, no longer harbored any illusions. He directly bathed his entire body in azure demonic fire, preparing to forcefully break through the confinement of the Four Symbols Array Domain.

However, Zhou Chun did not intend to let it leave so easily.

Suddenly, another golden orb appeared in the sky, and a beam of golden light shot out, instantly landing on the giant bird.

The giant bird, which was soaring high in the sky, was immediately frozen in mid-air as if it had been struck by a spell when it was illuminated by the golden light.

Immediately afterward, the four elements rotated, and the seven-colored fire phoenix opened its mouth and spat out a ball of seven-colored glazed flames, which then floated down onto the giant bird.

Although it is still the [Glazed Pure Fire], the power of the seven-colored glazed flames is now infinitely close to the natal demonic fire of a fifth-tier fire phoenix.

The giant bird's feathers were already badly damaged from the previous attacks, and now, when it was burned by the seven-colored glazed flames, thick black smoke immediately billowed from its body, emitting a strong burnt smell.

Furthermore, the burning effect of the [Glazed Pure Fire] on the consciousness and soul of demons is even more unbearable.

After it broke free from the immobilization effect of the golden light, the entire Snow Dragon Ridge heard its mournful cry.

Just as Zhou Chun was preparing to press on and completely kill this fifth-order demon king, the demon king finally demonstrated his life-saving abilities at the demon king level.

Suddenly, two loud explosions came from his body, as he bravely and deliberately blew out his wings.

It seems that he used some special secret method to transfer the damage to his wings, thus severing his arm to survive.

Furthermore, with the added power generated by the self-destruction of its wings, its wind escape technique instantly reached a new level. It easily broke free from the confinement of the Four Symbols Array Domain, just like an invisible wind, and disappeared from Zhou Chun's sight in the blink of an eye, and then quickly disappeared from the range of his divine sense.

"Such incredible speed! At this rate, even a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator would have a chance to escape with their life!"

Zhou Chun looked slightly surprised, as he was quite astonished by this.

Then he couldn't help but sigh, "As expected of fifth-tier demon kings who survived the Heavenly Tribulation, they all have some survival skills. To kill such beings, you still need to plan ahead!"

Once you reach the Nascent Soul stage or the fifth-order Demon King level, unless it involves some mutually destructive means or power from a higher realm, killing beings at this level is indeed not a simple matter.

Otherwise, the fact that several Nascent Soul stage cultivators and fifth-order demon kings had perished in Jing Kingdom wouldn't have caused such a sensation and shock even among the high-level cultivators of the Great Zhou Kingdom.

In contrast, the examples are Tianjing Zhenren and Kuanglei Zhenren, both of whom survived extremely dangerous situations because they knew how to cut off their arms to survive.

Zhou Chun had just formed his Nascent Soul, and although he possessed a spiritual treasure, his strength could never compare to that of the two-headed black dragon that had emerged from the Great Zhou Kingdom.

But didn't Master Kuang Lei escape from that two-headed black dragon back then?

Inspired by the escaped fifth-tier demon king, Zhou Chun felt that when he cultivated supernatural powers and secret techniques in the future, he should also choose to cultivate one or two methods that could help him escape in such critical moments.

That way, if we ever encounter a powerful enemy that we can't defeat, at least we'll have a chance to escape!

In any case, Nascent Soul stage cultivators have long lifespans and their cultivation progresses slowly, so they will have plenty of time to cultivate various secret techniques and supernatural abilities in the future.

Having made this matter a thought, Zhou Chun reverted to human form, put away the treasures, and then said to his spirit pets, "Alright, now that scoundrel has run away, we can put away the formation!"

Upon hearing his words, the spirit pets withdrew their magic and dispelled their secret techniques.

As the secret technique dissipated, their auras immediately weakened, and each of them looked as if their vitality had been greatly depleted.

Clearly, that immense power, far exceeding his own level, came at a price.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun quickly comforted and praised them, saying, "Excellent, excellent! You did a great job. To be able to suppress a fifth-tier demon king with the cultivation of a fourth-tier demon beast is unprecedented in history. If word gets out, it will shock all demons!"

Sure enough, the spirit pets, who had been listless due to the depletion of the secret technique, instantly showed joy upon hearing his words, feeling extremely happy and proud.

Since they mastered this combined attack technique, although they knew it was very powerful, they had never actually fought against a fifth-tier being, so they were inevitably unsure of themselves.

Today's battle proved that their hard work was not in vain. Even a fifth-tier demon king who fell into the formation could be suppressed by their combined efforts.

Seeing his brothers receiving praise and compliments from their master, the Golden-Winged Tiger felt envious and jealous, fearing that his master would overlook his existence because of it.

So he quickly stepped forward and raised his paw to congratulate, "Congratulations, Master, on achieving the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul and attaining the Dao."

It spoke in human language, its face full of flattery, which made Zhou Chun secretly happy. How could he not understand what it meant?

He immediately nodded slightly and said, "Yes, Flying Tiger, you've worked hard these past few days. I will reward you in due time!"

Upon hearing this, Golden-Winged Tiger's eyes lit up with joy, and he quickly replied, "Serving my master is Flying Tiger's duty, and I dare not claim credit for it."

Hearing this "getting a good deal but still acting innocent" remark, Lei Jiao Bai Bai, Mu Mei Mu Sang, and the others couldn't help but glare at it fiercely, wishing they could slap it across the face.

They were clearly the ones who contributed the most and helped their master defeat the powerful enemy just now, so how come it seems like the Golden-Winged Tiger is the one who did the most work now?

Zhou Chun observed the pets' subtle actions and thoughts, and couldn't help but laugh, saying, "Hahaha, you lot, stop glaring at Flying Tiger! You'll all get a reward, you'll all get a reward! I'm always fair and just, I won't leave you out!"

After calming down the spirit pets, he took them and left the place directly, without staying to exchange ideas with the Nascent Soul stage cultivators from the Ice Barbarian Kingdom who were about to arrive.

I don't know if it was because I was too excited yesterday, but I felt a bit out of sorts when I started writing today. I've only finished six thousand words by now!